Posted by Dan Ewert : 10/08/2002 12:27:00 AM (Archive Link)
I find the Arab world an amazing place. Popular opinion over there considers America and it’s populace to be corrupt, apostate, stupid, and overall inferior to themselves. Despite this, however, they blame the U.S. for all of its woes. Their culture is going downhill because of America, their unemployment is high because of America, America is militarily oppressing them. It must create a tremendous psychological strain that a country which you consider to be so far inferior to your own is actually so far superior in every measurable aspect; that you create this dichotomy in which you haughtily look down on this lesser being but also denounce it for its powerful oppression over you. It’s interesting.